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A rare simultaneous transit across Jupiter by the shadows of three of its four great Galilean satellites will occur during the night of January 23-24. This can be seen through modest telescopes. The next triple shadow transit won’t happen until 2032.

Bright Jupiter currently rises during the early evening for all observers. The triple shadow transit will be best viewed from the Americas.

Hi Curt, thanks for the regular astronomy updates. The avid amateur astronomer knows more about what is happening in the sky that people can see than professional astronomers. I got my start in astronomy going up to the Adler Planetarium on the IC from a southern suburb on Saturdays when I was a kid. I am probably one of the only astronomy PhD's on the forum.

So my 15 year old son has been saving his pet sitting money for a while and decided to go buy himself a telescope.
He ordered one of these:Amazon.com : Celestron NexStar 5 SE Telescope : Catadioptric Telescopes : Camera Photo
(Celestron NexStar 5 SE)
It just arrived today... He set it up and we quickly found Jupiter and moons (but not yet in transit.)
It was neat... I could see patterns in Jupiter's surface. I just took a quick snap with my iPhone camera pointed at the viewfinder (resulting in a massive loss of detail), but just to add to the comment:

You're welcome, Astrotoy. I too started visiting the Adler in 1955. Joe Guzman is a friend of mine who regularly conducts star parties there. He hosts the Chicago Astronomer forum: Home | The Chicago Astronomer

Thanks for sharing your fine photos, TEG. Glad you got to see the event.

I am pleased that we were able to see this right from our back yard here in the city. Weather was very favorable with clear skies. Usually I would think that air pollution would make this a poor location for such viewing, but I guess we can credit all the EVs sold in this area helping to provide clearer skies! (Another little mentioned benefit of getting away from ICE vehicles.)